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Crimson woke up just a few miles outside of town, in the middle of the park. The trees fortunately blocked his view of the sunlight that would have beamed down on his face, but it was enough to wake him up. He grudgingly sat up and looked about, finding that he fell asleep on a park bench His clothes looked like they were out of time, but what drew his attention was what was happening on the street. The street felt familiar somehow, but everything was different. All the cars parked nearby were older models of some more recent ones, a few stores and signs appeared to look very dated, and some of the locals walked about in different clothing then he did. All he remembered was that he was with his friends last, and he set about to find them. From what he assumed, it seemed that whatever happened in Twilight's lab, it seemed to throw him back in time. Everything around him was almost concrete evidence.

But what really shocked him was the date. 31st January 1986.
And it really hit him as he walked past a TV shop, replaying footage after the Challenger disaster only 3 days prior...

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Circuit got up and walked out of the alley, taking in the sights of 1986 downtown Canterlot. Advertisements at the home video store (which, in 2016, would have been a GameStop) depicted the release of Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome to VHS. Computer stores touted the recently released Apple Macintosh Plus. The toy store was boasting about the newest G.I. Joe figures, while broadcast footage of the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle played on the televisions in the TV store. In front of the store, he saw a very familiar face...

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It seemed that Crim found a friendly face, and he didn't change at all in appearance, meaning that Crimson and the rest of his friends must have instantaneously ended up in the same timeline as a single group without any effects to their appearance, personality or age.

"Yeah! It's me" Crimson responded. "So...to spot the obvious elephant in the room, we are now in 1986"

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"I noticed," said Circuit, wiping the dust off of his jeans. "I can't believe this is actually happening..."

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Rainbow Dash groggily awoke, feeling much like she had had a hangover.

"What happened last night..." she muttered.

She found herself inside what appeared to be a motel room. The only things that seemed out of place were the early touch-tone telephone and the massive CRT TV, which appeared to be airing the morning news.

"Welcome to Canterlot News 7 in the Morning on this Friday, January 31, 1986..."

This was when it hit her. She had been sent back in time. Presumably it had happened last night, when she was in the lab with Twilight and the others.

Rainbow Dash ran out of the room and made her way downtown. If she was sent back in time, she hoped the others had been as well...

She stopped dead in her tracks when she noticed two figures in front of the TV store. They looked very familiar...

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Not long later, Twilight emerged around the corner still dressed in her lab coat. She found the three of them together, and she soon felt the smile on her face grew. But at the same time, her disappointment did as well for causing such a disaster in her lab. Well...what she thought was a disaster anyway. Nobody really knew what happened, everything was normal until everything suddenly went white.

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Twilight scratched her head. "They would not have gotten very far, so I suspect within a radius of the city center. We did however, wake up in different parts of the city. So I would suspect that the others are gathering in the middle of the city."

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While the others began to head off, Crimson's mind drifted off elsewhere. Instead of his attention going to his friends and meeting up with them, he was thinking of something much more personal. All he needed was a phonebook...for later.

Soon, the group found the rest of their friends in a drastically different appearing town-center. It was almost the most 80's side of town that they ever seen....